The event raises funds for women's
health services at the hospital and its satellite facilities across Niagara
County. Proceeds from last year's inaugural "Sing" supported the purchase of
infant monitors for the hospital's expanded women's health OB/GYN unit.

The
2013 event will honor the late Nancy Gara, NFMMC director and member of the
foundation board of directors. Gara was chairwoman of the "Sing
Sisters Sing" event until her untimely death in May. She was a fierce advocate
for women's health issues, and served as the "voice for those who had no voice,"
at the hospital for many years, said NFMMC President and CEO Joseph A.
Ruffolo.

Gara was a 40-year veteran of the
Niagara Frontier banking industry. Hired by Marine Midland Bank as a part-time
teller in 1970, Gara rose through the ranks to become first vice president and
branch manager of HSBC Center branch in Buffalo. She oversaw all retail and community
activities for the former Marine Midland Bank and HSBC while managing the head
offices in Niagara Falls and Buffalo. She was the officer-in-charge of closing
the HSBC Center head office and safe depository upon the bank's branch network
sale to First Niagara. At the time of her death, Gara was vice president and
manager of First Niagara's Power City branch in Niagara Falls.